Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
126
Gender
Female
Birthday
October 5, 1975 (50 years old)
Place of Birth
Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
Kate Elizabeth Winslet
Kate Winslet
Biography
Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is an English actress. Known for her work in independent films, particularly period dramas, as well as for her portrayals of headstrong and complicated women, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards.
Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at age 15, was in the British television series Dark Season (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994), and went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995). Global stardom followed soon after with her leading role in the epic romance Titanic (1997), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Titanic was the highest-grossing film at the time, after which she eschewed parts in blockbusters in favour of critically acclaimed period pieces, including Quills (2000) and Iris (2001).
The science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), in which Winslet was cast against type in a contemporary setting, proved to be a turning point in her career, and she gained further recognition for her performances in Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), and The Reader (2008). For playing a former Nazi camp guard in the latter, she won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winslet's portrayal of Joanna Hoffman in the biopic Steve Jobs (2015) won her another BAFTA Award, and she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) and Mare of Easttown (2021).
For her narration of a short story in the audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999), Winslet won a Grammy Award. She performed the song "What If" for the soundtrack of her film Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001). A co-founder of the charity Golden Hat Foundation, which aims to create autism awareness, she has written a book on the topic, The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism (2010). Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009 and 2021. In 2012, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Divorced from film directors Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes, Winslet has been married to businessman Edward Abel Smith since 2012. She has a child from each marriage.
Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at age 15, was in the British television series Dark Season (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994), and went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995). Global stardom followed soon after with her leading role in the epic romance Titanic (1997), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Titanic was the highest-grossing film at the time, after which she eschewed parts in blockbusters in favour of critically acclaimed period pieces, including Quills (2000) and Iris (2001).
The science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), in which Winslet was cast against type in a contemporary setting, proved to be a turning point in her career, and she gained further recognition for her performances in Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), and The Reader (2008). For playing a former Nazi camp guard in the latter, she won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winslet's portrayal of Joanna Hoffman in the biopic Steve Jobs (2015) won her another BAFTA Award, and she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) and Mare of Easttown (2021).
For her narration of a short story in the audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999), Winslet won a Grammy Award. She performed the song "What If" for the soundtrack of her film Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001). A co-founder of the charity Golden Hat Foundation, which aims to create autism awareness, she has written a book on the topic, The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism (2010). Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009 and 2021. In 2012, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Divorced from film directors Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes, Winslet has been married to businessman Edward Abel Smith since 2012. She has a child from each marriage.
Known For
Acting
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Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
as
Queen Cupid (voice)
2027
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
as
Marigol
2026
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
as
Clementine Kruczynski (archive footage) (uncredited)
2026
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
as
Narrator (voice over)
2025
Royal Carols: Together At Christmas 2025
as
Self
2025
Avatar: Fire and Ash
as
Ronal
2025
Goodbye June
as
Julia
2025
Avatar: A New Era - Special Edition of 20/20
as
Self
2025
Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films
as
Self - "Ronal"
2 episode
s
2025
DreamScapes
as
Mother Earth (voice)
2024
Lee
as
Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller
2024
The Regime
as
Chancellor Elena Vernham
6 episode
s
2023
Titanic: Stories from the Heart
as
Self
2023
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
as
Self - Guest
1 episode
2023
Inside Pandora's Box
as
Self
2023
Digman!
as
Dr. Sandra Null (voice)
1 episode
2022
Avatar: The Way of Water
as
Ronal
2022
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
as
Self
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as
Self – Actor and producer
2 episode
s
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as
Self – Actor and director
1 episode
2022
Eleven Days in May
as
Narrator
2021
L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth
as
Self
2021
Eating Our Way to Extinction
as
Narrator (voice)
2021
Mare of Easttown
as
Marianne 'Mare' Sheehan
7 episode
s
2021
Baba Yaga
as
Baba Yaga (voice)
2020
Black Beauty
as
Black Beauty (voice)
2020
Ammonite
as
Mary Anning
2020
A World of Calm
as
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
2019
The Christmas Letter
as
Narrator (voice)
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as
Self - Guest
2 episode
s
2019
Blackbird
as
Jennifer
2019
I Am...
as
Ruth
1 episode
2019
Manou the Swift
as
Manou's Mother(voice)
2018
Buttons
as
Narrator (voice)
2018
The Kodiak Queen
as
Narrator
2018
Oceans: Our Blue Planet
as
Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
Snow Bears
as
Narrator (voice)
2017
Wonder Wheel
as
Ginny
2017
The Mountain Between Us
as
Alex Martin
2017
Diana: The Day Britain Cried
as
Narrator (voice)
2016
Collateral Beauty
as
Claire Wilson
2016
The Lost Letter
as
Narrator (voice)
2016
Daisy Chain
as
Buttercup Bree (voice)
2016
Triple 9
as
Irina Vlaslov
2015
Snow Chick - A Penguin's Tale
as
Narrator (voice)
2015
The Dressmaker
as
Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage
2015
Steve Jobs
as
Joanna Hoffman
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as
Self
2 episode
s
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as
Self - Guest
1 episode
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as
Self
1 episode
2015
A Little Chaos
as
Sabine De Barra
2015
Insurgent
as
Jeanine Matthews
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as
Self
3 episode
s
2014
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
as
Self
1 episode
2014
Divergent
as
Jeanine Matthews
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as
Self - Guest
1 episode
2013
Labor Day
as
Adele
2013
Movie 43
as
Beth (segment "The Catch")
2012
Reflections on Titanic
as
Self
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as
(archive footage)
2011
Discovering Hamlet
as
Ophelia (archive footage)
2011
Carnage
as
Nancy Cowan
2011
Contagion
as
Erin Mears
2011
Mildred Pierce
as
Mildred Pierce
5 episode
s
2009
C à vous
as
Self - Guest
1 episode
2008
Revolutionary Road
as
April Wheeler
2008
The Reader
as
Hanna Schmitz
2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as
Self (uncredited)
2007
The Graham Norton Show
as
Self
10 episode
s
2006
The Holiday
as
Iris Simpkins
2006
Flushed Away
as
Rita (voice)
2006
Little Children
as
Sarah Pierce
2006
All the King's Men
as
Anne Stanton
2006
The One Show
as
Self
1 episode
2006
Deep Sea 3D
as
Narrator (voice)
2005
Romance & Cigarettes
as
Tula
2005
Extras
as
Kate Winslet
1 episode
2004
Finding Neverland
as
Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
as
Self
1 episode
2004
A Look Inside Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
A Conversation with Jim Carrey and Director Michel Gondry
2004
Pride
as
Suki (voice)
2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as
Clementine Kruczynski
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as
Self
1 episode
2003
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Life of David Gale
as
Bitsey Bloom
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as
Self - Guest
1 episode
2002
War Game
as
Annie
2001
Iris
as
Young Iris Murdoch
2001
Christmas Carol: The Movie
as
Belle (voice)
2001
Being Mick
as
Self
2001
Enigma
as
Hester Wallace
2000
Quills
as
Madeleine LeClerc
1999
The Early Show
as
Self - Guest
2 episode
s
1999
Holy Smoke
as
Ruth Barron
1999
Hideous Kinky
as
Julia
1999
Faeries
as
Brigid (voice)
1998
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
as
Self
1998
Parkinson
as
Self
1 episode
1997
Titanic
as
Rose DeWitt Bukater
1997
The View
as
Self
2 episode
s
1997
Leute heute
as
Self
1 episode
1996
Hamlet
as
Ophelia
1996
Jude
as
Sue Bridehead
1995
Sense and Sensibility
as
Marianne Dashwood
1995
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
as
Princess Sarah
1994
Heavenly Creatures
as
Juliet Hulme
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
as
Self
1 episode
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as
Self - Guest
1 episode
1993
GMTV
as
Self
1 episode
1992
Get Back
as
Eleanor Sweet
15 episode
s
1992
HBO First Look
as
Self
1 episode
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2 episode
s
1992
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as
Caroline Jevington
1 episode
1991
Dark Season
as
Reet
6 episode
s
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as
Self - Guest
2 episode
s
1987
Seitenblicke
as
Self
1 episode
1986
Casualty
as
Suzanne
1 episode
1984
Goldene Kamera
as
Self
1 episode
1982
Nature
as
Narrator (voice)
2 episode
s
1981
Entertainment Tonight
as
Self
1 episode
1975
Saturday Night Live
as
Self - Host
1 episode
1953
The Oscars
as
Self
4 episode
s
1952
Today
as
Self
1 episode
1948
Bambi
as
Self
1 episode
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as
Self - Nominee
1 episode
